[nycbug-talk] New box is killing me

[Dan Casey]

- "Hightpoint-tech RocketRaid 1640"
- All 4 drives are 80G Western Digital SATA

Yeah someone else mentioned that "C" column when running top was for
HyperThreading and not actually 2 processors. During boot I see a line about
SMP 2 CPUs, but now that I look above that it says "Hyperthreading: 2
Logical CPUs".

Since my last message I've compiled a GENERIC kernel, but with the SMP line
commented out. Now that "C" column is missing like I'm used to. Also when I
shut down (or reboot) I don't get kernel errors. It gets past the syncing
disks part without any errors (waits on 1 buffer 3 times), then continues.
It gets up to the part where it says Uptime <time> and then locks up w/out
any error messages. Still not sure what to do about all this.

I'm not sure If I'm going in the right direction here or not.. Will I be
limiting my CPU's performance by disabling hyperthreading?

I would jump to 5.3 but the drivers for the readme for the raid drivers say
its for 4.3 - 5.2.1. I'm sure that could very well just be due to the time
in which the file was published, but I really don't want to waste the
bandwidth doing another ftp install, and have to jump back down.

Thanks for your help!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Sprickman" <spork at bway.net>
To: <mlists at bizintegrators.com>
Cc: <talk at lists.nycbug.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] New box is killing me


> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 mlists at bizintegrators.com wrote:
>
> > Maybe disable hyperthreading in BIOS..
>
> Or go to something more recent.  5.2.1 is beta quality at best.  I
> believe 5.3 is now available.  What type of raid controller are you using?
>
> Charles
>
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:42:06PM -0500, Dan Casey wrote:
> >> I dont know if this is the right mailling list to be sending this to.
I've just discovered nycbug today. But this problem is killing me.
> >> This is a new 1u computer. 3 sata drives on raid5 (not currently
plugged into the computer), and 1 80 wd sata plugged into the onboard sata
controller.
> >>
> >> If anyone can help, or even point me in the direction of help, please!
> >> This new box is more trouble then its worth...
> >>
> >> I took my raid controller out, and installed 5.2.1 release on a single
hard drive, thinking that the raid was the problem.
> >>
> >> the computer pauses randomly for a second every once in a while.. by
randomly i mean every other second.
> >>
> >> i tried to reboot the system and this is what i got, followed by a
complete freeze..
> >>
> >>
>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----... 'vnlru' to stop... stopped
> >> kernel trap 1 with interrupts disabled
> >>
> >>
> >> Fatal trap 1: privileged instruction fault while in kernel mode
> >> cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
> >> instruction pointer = 0x8:0xebfeab82
> >> stack pointer = 0x10:0xebfeab60
> >> frame pointer = 0x10:0xebfeab7c
> >> code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x16
> >> = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> >> processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0
> >> current process = 552(reboot)
> >> trap number = 1
> >> panic: privileged instruction fault
> >> cpuid = 1;
> >> boot() called on cpu#1
> >>
> >> syncing disks, buffers remaining... panic: pmap_invalid_range:
interupts disabled
> >> cpuid = 1;
> >> boot() called on cpu#1
> >> Uptime: 7m11s
> >> spin lock sched lock held by 0xc2957640 for > 5 secondsThank you!!!
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